The first thing I thought when I heard that was “more Jar Jar, more Ewoks.”
Dom, I’m glad that you changed your mind on this, but you’re the not only person to express such a sentiment. I’ve seen a lot of this online, and frankly, it baffles me. The Ewoks haven’t been in anything since 1986, and Jar Jar’s role got significantly reduced with each movie. There’s no reason whatsoever to think that we’ll see more of either of them in the upcoming films.
I guess people are worried about Disney “cute-ifying” the franchise, but if they didn’t do that with Marvel, why on earth would they do it now?
I know l8wrtr shares some similar sentiments, but there is sooo much good in the PT. Everyone looks down on EP1 but fails to see what worked.
Honestly, other than John Williams’ music, I can’t think of a single thing that worked consistently throughout the movies. People say that the prequels had good ideas that just weren’t well executed, but I can’t even think of any
ideas that were any good.
Put aside Gungans and midichlorians for a minute—was it a good idea to have every Stormtrooper everywhere be a carbon copy of Boba Fett? Was it a wise idea to have Anakin start killing younglings over one bad dream about Padme nodding her head to one side? Was it a strong dramatic choice to make the Jedi’s power based on things in their biology and then not allow them to procreate? Furthermore, to make such a big deal out of the Jedi not marrying, and then to dismiss it with a throwaway line of dialogue in the next movie? Was it a good idea to have Yoda run away from a battle that was evenly matched?
All that being said, it’s true that I might never have noticed how bad the ideas were if they had been executed better. I’m hoping that Kathleen Kennedy and company have the authority to make judgment calls about some of George’s ideas for 7, 8, and 9. I have no doubt that they’ll at least be executed in a more sensible fashion.
I have to say... the strangest thing happening from this whole thing is.... George Lucas is loved and respected again.
Aside from my rant above, I completely agree. I love and respect George again, because he’s passing off the franchise to those who have the potential to make it awesome again. I really respect him because he donated all the money to charity. I never thought he could do anything at this point to earn my favor back, but he sure did.
I'd prefer a happy ending.
I like dark movies as much as the next guy, but ending a 9 movies saga (or even the 6 we have by the way) that is mostly made for kids, with an uncertain, mysterious and dark ending. I'm not sure about that.
Yeah, I completely agree. If this is a trilogy of trilogies, then I want Ep. 9 to be happy and hopeful. For that matter, movies have been too cynical lately. We need to return to the joy and the fun of the original trilogy.
I would suggest David Yates (HP 5,6,7,8);
Many people have suggested this online, in this thread, on Facebook, in other forums, and on news sites like Entertainment Weekly. All I can say is, good heavens,
no!
Am I the only one who sees that he made the Harry Potter movies jump the shark? We went from the best film in the series (Goblet of Fire) to arguably the worst film (Order of the Phoenix). And while there were some minor improvements here and there, the series never fully recovered from the damage he did. Characters’ motivations became incomprehensible; the story was often incoherent; and story-told-through-special-effects became special-effects-at-the-expense-of-story. I would rather have no new Star Wars at all than have David Yates direct; he’s almost as bad as Lucas.
I do like the idea of Mike Newell or Alfonso Cauron, though. They both did excellent HP entries.
On a side note, the hosts of the ForceCast (an otherwise excellent show, with a couple of great guys hosting) speculated that Spielberg would direct the next film. This is a silly thought, and it won’t happen, nor do I want it to. Spielberg hasn’t made a really good action/fantasy film since
Jurassic Park 20 years ago. The last Lucas/Spielberg collaboration,
Indy IV, was hugely unsatisfying. Lucas even had the nerve to blame Spielberg and Harrison Ford for how bad it was, which makes me think Spielberg is less likely to want to work with him again.
At any rate, Spielberg had wanted to direct a Star Wars movie at one time, but I think that ship has sailed. Spielberg is more focused on other projects, which is as it should be.
How sad is everyone knowing that Star Wars 7 won't open with the Fox Fanfare?
The weird thing is that the Slashfilm article (while very good and informative overall) bizarrely said something to the effect of, “Fox will be involved, but the Fox logo won’t be used.” That’s nuts. If Fox can claim any rights to be involved at this point, then the Fox logo is going to be used, either before or after the Disney logo. Everyone wants it. If Fox isn’t involved, then no harm, no foul. But audiences would hit the roof if Fox is involved but the logo is skipped anyway. (Having more than one company’s logo before a movie has happened before; for instance, Fox and Paramount both have a logo at the beginning of
Titanic.)
Speaking of logos, I really enjoy the fan logos posted on this thread. My favorite is the one with Cloud City in it. Of course, it’s kind of funny that everyone is using the blue logo, which Disney hasn’t been using for several years now. But I guess that’s easier to imitate in Photoshop than the current one.
POTC are some of the most overrated POS films to ever hit the screen.
So we’ve got one person voting against Gore Verbinski, but tons of people in this thread are voting for Elliot/Rossio as screenwriters. Personally, I think that the writers are mostly to blame for the faults in those movies. Verbinski was more of a journeyman. He could probably do well with Star Wars. But this is less of saying that I want Verbinski and more of saying that I don’t want Elliot/Rossio.
Yes; Mark Hamill didn't do very well at all as Luke. Fortunately, for the prequels, Lucas was able to find an actor worthy of his writing, Hayden Christensen.
ROTFL!!! Captain K for the win! Yes, I never understand the hard time that Mark Hammill gets for his acting. A well-respected actor like Samuel L. Jackson (who I like, too) couldn’t do a thing without a good director to guide him in Star Wars. Hammill did an amazing job in the same situation.
I never saw the Toy Story trilogy either.
So, what’s it like, deliberately robbing yourself of all happiness and joy in the universe?
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist!)